In-Person AI Workshops in San Francisco
In-person workshops & lectures
AI education & tools to help you embrace the new era of automation in the heart of San Francisco
Learn AI where the future is being built. In the heart of the Mission District.
AI Start Academy SF is a community space for founders, professionals, creators, and everyday learners who want to understand, use, and build with AI — directly from the people shaping the field.
Located on Mission Street, our San Francisco hub hosts intimate, high-impact sessions with AI founders, engineers, researchers, and operators from across the Valley. Every workshop is practical, hands-on, and focused on skills you can use immediately in your business, career, or creative work.
What happens here:
- In-person AI workshops for business owners, teams, and professionals
- AI 101 classes for community members and beginners
- Agent-building sessions: n8n, LangChain, RAG, voice agents, automation stacks
- AAA Agency Founder Meetups and builder gatherings
- Guest speakers & expert sessions from leading AI practitioners
- Live builds, interviews, and behind-the-scenes talks
- Founder mixers, collaborative evenings, and community Pow Wows
- Wellness, grounding, and creativity events to balance high-speed learning
A space built for real learning:
No hype. No gatekeeping. Just real-world AI education delivered by people actively building products, companies, and tools in San Francisco.
Every session is filmed, distilled, and shared with our global community — so what we create here goes far beyond these walls.
Join us in San Francisco
Whether you're running a business, building an agency, launching a startup, or simply curious about AI — this is where you learn faster, connect deeper, and stay ahead of what’s coming next.
Welcome to Ai Start Academy SF.
Let’s build the future together.
Welcome in.
Our In-Person Workshops
AI 101: What Is AI
(Beginner Friendly)
A hands-on intro to how modern AI works: models, prompting, RAG, agents, voice AI, and real use cases. Designed for absolute beginners — no technical experience required.
Build AI Agents
(No-Code / Low-Code)
Create a real working AI agent in one session.
Use n8n / make and modern tool stacks to automate your personal workflows, customer service, content, or internal ops.
Guest Speakers
(Founders & Engineers)
Intimate fireside presentations with top AI builders, researchers, and operators from SF. Real-world tech, hands-on demos, and direct Q&A.
AAA Meetups
Ai Automation Agency Meetups
A curated space for AI agency founders, operators, and automation builders to connect, share playbooks, exchange frameworks, and workshop real client challenges.
Ai For Business Owners
Learn exactly how to apply AI to your company's operations, marketing, and customer workflows — even if you’re not technical. Walk away with automations, templates, and a clear plan for your business.
AI for Startup Founders
Build smarter, faster, and leaner. Learn how to integrate AI into your product, prototype agents, automate onboarding, accelerate content, and scale without headcount.
Who this is for
BUSINESS OWNERS & STARTUP Founders
heads of growth/marketing
Ops, Sales, and Support Leaders
Tech & Product Decision Makers
Teams looking to streamline quoting, support, or workflows with AI
Experts of AI Start Academy
STEVE DEOL
CEO @ DriveByAutomation.Ai | Former Solution Engineer at Rockwell & Coupa
LEX MUSTAFIN
CTO @ DriveByAutomation.Ai | Mentor @ 500 Startups. Founder of CPB Platform
What You Will Learn
Prompting Techniques That Actually Work . Especially for ops, support, and sales
GPT Use Cases. Custom bots for quoting, onboarding, product support
LLMs + RAG Simplified. What they are, how they work
Agentic AI Overview. How task-based agents save time & labor
Relevance AI (for doc search + automations)
N8N (visual workflow builder)
VAPI & ElevenLabs (for audio & voice automation)
HeyGen (for avatar video generation)
